Monday, January 18, 2016

Water of Love

Dear Besprinkled,

I hope, wherever you are, you are enjoying a damp, wet, rainy, and/or snowy winter. Here at the Dodo, we are very satisfied with the mud and the dripping, and this water dropletting reminds me to show you this.

Remarkable, no? To accompany this marvel of the natural world, a poem by William Carlos Williams:

RAIN

As the rain falls

so does

your love

bathe every

open

object of the world--

In houses

the priceless dry

rooms

of illicit love

where we live

hear the wash of the

rain--

There

paintings

and fine

metalware

woven stuffs--

all the whorishness

of our

delight

sees

from its window

the spring wash

of your love

the falling

rain--

The trees

are become

beasts fresh-risen

from the sea--

water

trickles

from the crevices of

their hides--

So my life is spent

to keep out love

with which

she rains upon

the world

of spring

drips

so spreads

the words

far apart to let in

her love

And running in between

the drops

the rain

is a kind physician

the rain

of her thoughts over

the ocean

every

where

walking with

invisible swift feet

over

the helpless

waves--

Unworldly love

that has no hope

of the world

and that

cannot change the world

to its delight--

The rain

falls upon the earth

and grass and flowers

come

perfectly

into form from its

liquid

clearness

But love is

unworldly

and nothing

comes of it but love

following

and falling endlessly

from

her thoughts

Here also, is a song, to emphasize the wonder of water. May your rain barrels overflow!